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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? Does it have to be in person? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs?

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. This podcast is an excerpt of Claire’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers.

Scale 119
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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It That’s really when it got us thinking about that.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Kustomer, Google Cloud, and Zenoss — August 8, 2019

SaaStr

This podcast is an excerpt of Eyal and Megan’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. But I think what it boils down to is also how newer technology is being developed and the ability for it to inter-operate with other platforms. Missed the session?

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Co-founder Scott Farquhar mentioned as much during the company’s July 2019 earnings call, saying that, “What we’re talking about here is moving many of our products from a free trial to a freemium approach.” How to optimize your freemium model. Stories of ditching a freemium model. Is Freemium The Right Business Model?

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is the SaaS business model. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. Early stage.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Redpoint Ventures, Felicis Ventures, and Adyen — November 22, 2019

SaaStr

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? Travis Bryant.